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SONG-DISSERTATION-2019.Pdf i © Copyright by Shaowei Song 2019 All Rights Reserved ii Nanomaterials to Enhance the Performance of Thermoelectric Materials and Catalysts for Water Splitting A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Program of Materials Science and Engineering University of Houston In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy In Materials Science and Engineering By Shaowei Song May 2019 iii Nanomaterials to Enhance the Performance of Thermoelectric Materials and Catalysts for Water Splitting Shaowei Song Approved Chair of the Committee Zhifeng Ren, Professor, Dept. of Physics and TcSUH Committee members: Alamgir Karim, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Shuo Chen, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics and TcSUH Jiming Bao, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Paul Ruchhoeft, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Suresh Khator, Associate Dean, Alamgir Karim, Program Director, Cullen College of Engineering Materials Science and Engineering iv Acknowledgements I really would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Ren in department of Physics and TcSUH for giving me the opportunity to work in his group and sponsor me for my Ph.D. study. He is not only a mentor for scientific research, and also a guider in my life. He helps me become who I am now. Prof. Ren is always patient, comprehensive and positive to instruct and inspire my study. Whatever the difficulty I encounter in my life or my research, Prof. Ren is always be kind and helpful. My wife Yaxi Li is always supportive to me in past eleven years. I think I am the luckiest person to have her in my life. She brings happiness and luck to me every day. I really appreciate what she has done. I also want to thank my parents and my litter brother for their unconditional support and love. I also want to thank Prof. Qingyong Zhang and Prof. Yingrong Jin in Xihua University, who instructed me to earn my master’s degree. They lead me to the science research field and enlighten my research interests. I feel so fortunate to work with these smart people in this wonderful group. I would like to thank my current group member Dr. Jun Mao, Dr. Zhensong Ren, Dr. Dan Luo, Dr. Fei Tian, Dr. Lili Jiang, Dr. Luo Yu, Qing Zhu, Wuyang Ren, Wenyu Zhang, Fanghao Zhang and former group members Dr. Hantian Zhu, Dr. Ran He, Dr. Jing Shuai, Dr. Udara Saparamadu, Dr. Jianfa Chen, Prof. Yumei Wang, Prof. Haiqing Zhou, Dr. Jingying Sun, Dr. Yizhou Ni, Dr. Qing Jie, Dr. Jing Jiang, Ting Zhou and Li You. I want to express my gratitude to Prof. Shuo Chen for her active discussion and kind help in my life. I would like to thank our research professor Dr. Dezhi Wang and our lab manager Hui Wang. v I would like to thank the committee member: Prof. Zhifeng Ren, Prof. Alamgir Karim, Prof. Shuo Chen, Prof. Jiming Bao, and Prof. Paul Ruchhoeft for their kind help during my graduation. vi Nanomaterials to Enhance the Performance of Thermoelectric Materials and Catalysts for Water Splitting An Abstract of a Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Program of Materials Science and Engineering University of Houston In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy In Materials Science and Engineering By Shaowei Song May 2019 vii Abstract Solutions to the growing energy demand and environment concerns can be increasing the current energy conversion efficiency or seeking alternative energy sources. Thermoelectric materials can directly harvest and convert waste heat from industrial, residential, commercial and transportation to electricity. However, the low conversion efficiency of thermoelectric material severely hinders its mass commercial application in past few decades, because thermoelectric parameters including electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and electronic thermal conductivity are intimately interdependent on each other by carrier concentration. Nanosized materials exhibit advantages to decouple the thermoelectric parameters. In my work, thermoelectric performances of n-type Mg3Sb1.5Bi0.5-based compounds are enhanced through grain alignment and carrier concentration optimization. Due to its typical layered crystal structure, partial texturing in the (001) plane is achieved by hot forging. Hall mobility is significantly improved to 105 cm2 V-1 s-1 in the (00l) plane, resulting in higher electrical conductivity, and power factor of 18 μW cm-1 K-2 at room temperature. Additionally, all of the Mg vacancies in Mg3Sb1.5Bi0.5-based compounds are almost eliminated by simple Y doping, and n-type conduction was successfully achieved without adding extra Mg in the initial composition. The carrier concentration is optimized through the combination of Y and Mg, leading to a record peak ZT of ~1.8 at 773 K in Mg3.02Y0.02Sb1.5Bi0.5. Electrochemical water splitting is capable of converting electricity to chemical energy storaged as hydrogen, which is considered to be one of the most promising energy alternatives. Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as one-half reaction of water splitting suffers from multiple steps of proton-coupled electron transfer and displays a sluggish viii kinetic process, it is challenging to develop efficient OER catalysts in order to match well with hydrogen evolution reaction for overall water splitting. We develop a new route to synthesize highly efficient and robust bulk catalyst of Ni1-xFex layered double hydroxide (Ni1-xFex-LDH) for OER by ball milling and sintering. The nano-sheet catalysts achieve 100, 500, and 1000 mA cm-2 at overpotentials of 244, 278, and 300 mV, respectively, as well as a low Tafel slope of 58 mV dec-1 in 1 M KOH. ix Table of Contents Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................ v Abstract ................................................................................................................... viii Table of Contents ........................................................................................................... x List of Figures ............................................................................................................. xiv Chapter 1 Introduction ................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background .............................................................................................. 1 1.2 Introduction to thermoelectric materials .................................................. 3 1.3 Strategies for thermoelectric performance improvement ......................... 5 1.3.1 Nano engineering on charge carrier transportation ......................... 5 1.3.1.1 Optimization of carrier concentration .......................................... 5 1.3.1.2 Energy filtering ............................................................................ 8 1.3.1.3 Band convergency ...................................................................... 10 1.3.1.4 Resonate states ........................................................................... 13 1.3.2 Nano effect on phonon transport ................................................... 14 1.4 Electrochemical water splitting .............................................................. 17 1.4.1 Introduction of water splitting ....................................................... 17 1.4.2 Strategies to improve efficiency of water electrolysis .................. 21 1.4.2.1 Energy barrier and resistance ..................................................... 21 1.4.2.2 Large electrochemical active surface area (ECSA) .................... 22 x 1.4.2.3 Free energy of adsorption and desorption .................................. 23 Chapter 2 Characterization .......................................................................................... 26 2.1 Thermoelectric materials ........................................................................ 26 2.1.1 Thermoelectric properties characterization ................................... 26 2.1.2 Phase and microstructure characterization .................................... 27 2.2 Water splitting ........................................................................................ 28 2.2.1 Electrochemical activity characterization ..................................... 28 2.2.2 Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy ..................................... 29 2.2.3 iR compensation ............................................................................ 31 2.2.4 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy ................................................ 34 2.2.4 Raman Spectroscopy ..................................................................... 34 Chapter 3 Achieving high thermoelectric performance of Mg3Sb2-based compounds by grain alignment and carrier concentration optimization. ............................ 35 3.1 Background ............................................................................................ 35 3.2 Grain alignment promotes the thermoelectric performance of n-type Mg3Sb1.5Bi0.5 compounds ....................................................................... 36 3.2.2 Introduction ................................................................................... 36 3.2.3 Experiment .................................................................................... 38 3.2.3.1 Synthesis ..................................................................................... 38 3.2.3.2 Rietveld refinement and rocking curve .....................................
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